Dr. Roy J. Schulz
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Tn Space Institute
Tullahoma, TN 37388-9700
Phone: (931) 393-7425
Fax: (931) 393-7530
rschulz@utsi.edu
Education
- 1976 University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tennessee
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
- 1970 University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tennessee
MS, Mechanical Engineering
- 1967 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
Ohio
BS, Aerospace Engineering
Professional Experience
University of Tennessee Space Institute
Tullahoma, TN
- 1992-present Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Aerospace
Engineering
- 2000-2008 Chairman of UTSI MAES/MABE
Program
- 1996-1998 Chairman, Applied Fluid
Dynamics Research Group
- 1989-1996 Chairman, Program in Mechanical
Engineering
- 1986-1989 Associate Professor and
Staff Engineer in ECP Division
- 1982-1984 Assistant Professor and
Staff Engineer in ECP Division
- 1981-1983 Manager - Advanced Combustion
Systems ECP Div.
- 1980-1981 Supervisor - Combustion
Analytical Group ECP Div.
- 1979-1980 Research Specialist - Combustion
Analytical Group ECP
Div.
- 1976-1982 Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Responsible for research and teaching of
propulsion and power system design. Taught courses covering
design of turbine engine inlets, compressors, combustors,
turbines, and nozzles. Currently teaching rotordynamics
and torsional stability analysis, and rocket propulsion.
Director of the UTSI Solid Rocket Motor Short Course, and
the B.H. Goethert Aeropropulsion Short Course. Currently
working on Air Force project to define required conditions
for simulating the general mixed-precipitation atmospheric
flow conditions (air, liquid water drops and ice crystals)
for turbine engines in AEDC ground test facilities, and
in tanker spray testing of aircraft deicing and anti-icing
environmental hardware. Also, condensation in supersonic
nozzles.
Served as Manager of Advanced Combustion
Systems Design, Diagnostics, and Fuels at UTSI for U.S.
Department of Energy project on magnetohydrodynamics. Responsible
for dynamic simulation, test and systems integration of
advanced combustor components, including assembly of components,
subsystems, and systems, as well as fuels requirements.
Very experienced in specification of qualification requirements,
reviewing test plans, monitoring tests, and reviewing and
analyzing results.
Currently supervising research to model
very large hydrogen flare flames from flare stacks exhausting
into atmospheric cross-winds. This work, done for NASA Stennis
Space Center is used to develop environmental impact assessments
for rocket engine and component testing
- Major Professor for 48 Masters Degrees
- Major Professor or Research Supervisor of 11 Ph.D. Degrees
- Committee Member on 137 Theses and Dissertations
U.S Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC)
Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee
- 1967-1979 Staff, Project
and Research Engineer for ARO,Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary
of the Sverdrup Corporation, St. Louis, MO.
- 1984-1985 Senior Aerospace
Engineer with Sverdrup Technologies, Inc., Contract Operator
of AEDC
Assisted in the design and evaluation of
VTOL wind tunnel propulsion testing. Performed numerical
modeling studies of jet-lift V/STOL aircraft aerodynamics.
Responsible for subscale and full-scale model and prototype
testing in AEDC facilities R2A1, J-1 and J-2. Gained experience
in design, development and operation of both model and full-scale
aerospace test and research facilities for gas turbine engines,
ramjets, scramjet, and rocket engine propulsion systems.
Analyzed performance of pyrotechnic flares
at altitude for use as infrared decoys for military aircraft.
Carried out experimental study of dump combustor flow field
for application to ramjet and ducted rocket propulsion systems.
Past Professional Memberships
- Member: American Association of University Professors
- Member: American Society for Engineering Education
- Associate Fellow: American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics; past member of AIAA National Award Committee
on Propulsion. Served three terms on AIAA National Technical
Committee on Propellants and Combustion. Current member
of Ground Testing Technical Committee. Served as Technical
Committee Chairman, Secretary, Program Chairman/Vice Chairman,
and Chairman, and Council Member, of the Tennessee Section
of AIAA.
- Member: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; Program
Chairman, President-Elect (1988-1989), and President (1989-1990)
- Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Chairman
of Highland Rim Group 1981-1982, Membership Development
Committee Chairman 1982-83, Director, Highland Rim ASME
Section 1982-1984.
- Member of ASME Fluids Engineering Committee, ASME Multiphase
Flow Committee, and the Heat Transfer Division.
- Founding member of the Institute for Liquid Atomization
and Spray Systems (ILASS) - Americas. Chairman of the Theoretical
Atomization and Spray Systems Division, 1987-1989.
- Reviewer for: AIAA Journal, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft
and Rockets, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, ASME
Journal of Petroleum
Contracts and Grants
- U.S. Air Force, Arnold Center Arnold AFB,
Develop Turbine Engine Internal Pressure and Thermal Loading
Diagnostic Analysis, $50,000
- U.S. Air Force, Arnold Center Arnold AFB,
Model the Effects of Water Vapor Condensation and
Revaporization on Super Sonic Nozzle Flow Fields on
Aerodynamic Test Measurements, $50,000
- General Atomic Corp. (Co-author of
proposal with Drs. D. Keefer, P.I., R. Crawford, and C.
Merkle), Hypersonic Vehicle Electric Power System (HVEPS),
$529,822
- Sverdrup Technology, Inc. at AEDC (P.I.
and Co-author with Dr. Charles Merkle), Hypersonic
Aeropropulsion System Flight Trajectory Test and Evaluation
Support, $50,000
- U.S. Air Force, Arnold Center Arnold AFB,
Diagnostics Research and Development in Turbine Engine and
High-Pressure Combustor Systems, $275,000
- U.S. Air Force, Arnold Center Arnold AFB,
Advanced High Speed Propulsion Development, $2,819,151
- Develop and Validate CFD Model of Liquid Oxygen Gasification
and Injection System for Liquid Rocket, Hybrid Rocket and
Hypersonic Propulsion. Sponsor: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Student Research Grant - $66,000.
- Research and Modeling of Water spray Simulation of Adverse
Weather in Ground Test Facilities. Sponsor: U. S. Air Force
- $289,280.
- PC-Based CFD Numerical Model of Hydrogen Flames from Rocket
Test Stand Flare Stacks. Sponsor: NASA Stennis Space Center
- $50,000.
